New York. Columbia University Press. 2013. Black and white photographic illustrations, xiii + 282pp, notes, bibliography, index, a very good hardback copy in dustjacket. New communication and information technologies provide distinct challenges and possibilities for the Chinese script, which, unlike alphabetic or other phonetic scripts, relies on multiple signifying principles... More about Beyond Sinology. Chinese Writing and the Scripts of Culture

United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, 2009. 37 illustrations, xiv + 266pp, index, as new hardback in dustjacket. The rise of China presents a long-term challenge to the world not only economically, but politically and culturally. Callahan meets this challenge in China: The Pessoptimist Nation by using new Chinese sources and... More about China The Pessoptimist Nation

New York. Columbia University Press. (c.1997). xiii + 313pp, index, notes, dustjacket, very good copy. "In 'China's Transition' the author, a leading authority on modern China, assesses the prospects for democracy at the close of the twentieth century. In sixteen far-reaching essays, Andrew J. Nathan delves into China's history, politics... More about China's Transition

Boston. Houghton Mifflin. 1990. Map, black and white photographic illustrations, x + 342pp, very good in dustjacket. In his groundbreaking memoir about China's democracy movement and the massacre at Tiananmen Square in June 1989, student leader Shen Tong offers us a rare look at a bold and daring new generation... More about Almost a Revolution

Stanford. Stanford University Press. 1994. Revised edition. xvi + 295pp, glossary, notes, index, paperback, neat signature of prior owner front free endpaper. A very good copy. Reprint with a preface and two new chapters. Papers include: The Inner World of 1830 - Mark Elvin; Among Non-Chinese - Wang Gungwu and... More about The Living Tree. The Changing Meaning of Being Chinese Today

Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2008. x + 262pp, index, inscription on half title, a very good paperback copy. The essays in this volume examine the discourses of Cultural China from a glocalization perspective, and attempt to understand contemporary Cultural China by recording, describing and explaining its current discourses... More about Discourses of Cultural China in the Globalizing Age